Securing Infrastructure as Code: Best Practices for IaC Security
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is necessary for any modern software company or cloud service. Machine-readable definition files replace time-consuming manual procedures for managing and provisioning infrastructure resources by developers and operations teams. IaC increases flexibility, scalability, and repeatability but poses new security risks.